Saturday, December 22, 2007
Swan Lake
went for swan lake last night, it wasn't bad. spotted a few mistakes here and there, and they weren't totally synchronised all the time but hey, the Singapore Dance Theatre isn't something very prestigious. it was very entertaining though, and some parts were kinda funny, though i don't think they were supposed to be funny but oh well!
so the story is, there's Goodie, Baddie, and Swan. Goodie goes swan hunting at a lake and spots Swan magically change into a princess, turns out that that the princess was under a spell by Baddie and is a swan by day and human by night. only true love can break the spell, so heartwarming right? sighssss. WELL, so Goodie, being a goodie, falls in love and wants to break the spell, so he chases Swan and Swan acts all shy and stuff but she's probably playing hard to get so that Goodie would chase her some more and fall into the evil clasps of her hynoptism, muahahahahaha. then all the other swans start turning on him because they've found out that Goodie killed their great tribal chief Hunkalama and made him into a pillow which he drools on every night. later, to prevent the spell from breaking, Baddie captures Swan and locks her up in the highest tower of the castle on the highest hill. Goodie, who is throwing a birthday party at which he is supposed to choose a bride, does not know about it and when Baddie's daughter, Baddette, disguises as Swan and comes to his party, Goodie chooses her for his bride and breaks his promise of everlasting love to Swan. (wah, scaaandalousss) after they got married, Baddie reveals Badette and they both laugh at Goodie menacingly. Goodie goes to find Swan but is stopped by Baddie and Goodie tries to kill Baddie to break the spell forever. unfortunately, Goodie falls in love with Baddie and they both become gay.
maybe i just should have bought a programme booklet with the story in it. but seriously, at the part where Goodie was fighting Baddie, they looked more like they were doing the tango, there was a lot of hand holding and hugging and once, goodie even outreached his arm towards Baddie and did that 'i long for you' thing. funnyfunny.
clarissa and i got very good seats for the show, it was the second most expensive tickets (or third cheapest), though they weren't that expensive. it was directly in front of the stage, not too near and slightly elevated. we were initially very happy with the seats until we looked around us. we were surrounded by CHILDREN. and the kids behind us were veeerry noisy. the boy kept asking really dumb questions, "mum, are the boys wearing pants?", "mum, is that the princess?" i felt like boxing him. but i think the parents realised that ballets weren't for kids (DUH) and they disappeared after the first interval. the show ended really late, it started at 8 and ended at 11. probably because of the two intervals which were 20 minutes each. i have no idea why they made it so long.
so yeah, that was my night. the day before yesterday was really funny, audrey and i went shopping, for her to find a dress for the Abnia party and for me to find a job. we sat at Starbucks and hogged their classifieds section of the newspaper calling around. no luck, she said i was just being picky, i think so too, HAHA. but please, $4 per hour is total child labour. and you gotta give it to me because i even called a toy shop asking about the job offer and
pretended to love kids. WOW, no?
GONE SHOPPING, 12/22/2007 08:26:00 am
